Exam 25: Explaining How to Do and Understand Processes

An illustration paragraph must make an overall point, and it must include multiple examples that support or develop that point.

Which of the following is not one of the ways to link sentences within a paragraph?

Examples can be based on general knowledge.

When writing illustration essays ask yourself what do I mean by what I have just written.

Which of the following statements is not true about subtopic sentences?

Whenever you use a specific __________ to show what you mean, you are __________, and therefore strengthening, your point.

When writing an illustration paragraph, you must develop several examples to support your main topic as opposed to focusing on just one example.

When you write illustration paragraphs, you still use __________ (building images with specific words and sensory details) and __________ (making a point with brief stories).

An illustration paragraph is one that focuses on the use of examples.

A(n) __________ tells about each major example in a paragraph just as the topic sentence tells about the whole paragraph.

Using examples is the most common way we have of telling others what we mean, of explaining the general statements we make.

Linking sentences within and between paragraphs helps the reader follow our ideas more easily.

Replace I in your examples with me.

Your personal thoughts can be included in an illustration essay.

When writing illustration paragraphs, your purpose may be to inform, persuade, or entertain the reader.

Arrange your examples in prewriting from least to most important.

After you have decided on your main examples and written them out in subtopic sentences, you must then continue your paragraph by telling more about each example through specific words, vivid details and action, and more complete explanations.

The examples you provide in an illustration paragraph must be evenly balanced. You cannot spend more sentences on one example than you do on the others.

When arranging examples by order of importance, you should organize from most important to least important because people tend to remember best what they hear or read first.

Examples can be arranged in several ways, but one effective method is order of importance.